Quotes About Midlife

I suppose it is the way with all men and women who reach middle age without the clear perception that life never can be thoroughly joyous: under the vague dulness of the grey hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object, and finds it in the privation of an untried good.

Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, 'Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?'

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

There is something about hitting 40, the half- way mark that is heady and liberating, it runs away with you and you reach your 50s out of breath and wondering, 'Where was I going with that?'

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. Ogden Nash (1902–71), American poet I

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

i am happy that to have or not to have a "leffe" is not the need of the hour in my mid thirthies. A liittle bit of more lighthearted luff left.

I have dreams that I will reach balance in my life, and, at forty-one, I have none.

It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

At 40 years of age, when you realize your bank balance will not see you through the years ahead, then my acting talent comes handy.

You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

I am such a desperate man headed into a midlife crisis.

There is a psychological and physical toll from the pressure to recreate ourselves in midlife. To survive as workers, we have to deny, on some level, the realities of our bodies - bodies that age and give birth.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

I'm almost 40, so it's an awkward time in my career. You kind of hope it comes through and, if not, I'll be a waiter. Awesome.

It was chilling to wake up at forty years of age to find she had no friends, no interests and no investments in anything unconnected to her work.

The earliest portions to shrink are generally the frontal lobes, which govern judgment and planning, and the hippocampus, where memory is organized. As a consequence, memory and the ability to gather and weigh multiple ideas—to multitask—peaks in midlife and then gradually declines.

At fifty-one you had to keep running just to escape the avalanche of your own past.